What has made you Happy today??

[MB]

In ALL honesty, no doubt my Bogan neck of the woods world half century almost completed. Double thumbs up I always thought was locally understood from a distance, aeroplane tarmac style for Hillians as the “Good as Gold” …..appreciated/stop/well done/whatever


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[Sprock]

I did read that to the end & all I can say Plassy is find me a cat so I can kick it. Seriously Fark me dead if that’s all the kids of today have to worry about they need to get out in the real world & experience real world problems, WTF- if they have to write a 15 page dossier on an emoji imagine the life changing catastrophe if they were ever faced with an actual real problem. If this is the world we’re entering into show me the door cos I wana leave .

[Plasnart]

I did read that to the end & all I can say Plassy is find me a cat so I can kick it. Seriously Fark me dead if that’s all the kids of today have to worry about they need to get out in the real world & experience real world problems, WTF- if they have to write a 15 page dossier on an emoji imagine the life changing catastrophe if they were ever faced with an actual real problem. If this is the world we’re entering into show me the door cos I wana leave .

By the time they're sitting in the big chair mate you'll be wearing a bib and touching up the carers so don't worry too much about it.

[MB]

I’m a TAD worried about IT Personally, harder/oppressive countries are laughing at Progressivenessessss…..say 10 years too EARLY


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[MB]

We could always send into battle proper hardened online Gamers


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[BrazilianY60]

Have you watched a movie called "Idiocracy"? Just a simple fool movie, but the INTRO to build the ambient of where the movie takes place is fantastic. It is what we see now with the GenZ/snowflakes/useless SOBs that are spreading like rabbits.

[BrazilianY60]

Today I had the honor of getting my hands dirty on genuine top grade Mexican-Aussie dirt! Cortesy of mr. MB!

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Although the dirt alone would be good enough, it came with this:

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Will put it all apart, clean, degrease and put some sort of protection coating so it lasts forever.

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No flies on your good self too either mate!

Wife said I'd better sleep on the garage tonight

[Cuppa]

This probably should go in another thread ........... but it did make me very happy today.

A naked birder story.

They have been teasing me incessantly, morning & evening, every day for months. Yellow-billed Kingfishers loudly trilling away , often at very close quarters, but I think they must be able to throw their voices because despite being so loud & prolific they remain hidden. They are notoriously difficult to see, & harder to photograph because when they are seen it is usually deep in the shadows of trees. They are Cape York specials - only live up here (& in Papua New Guinea).

It had reached the point where I no longer bothered to go hunting for the source of the call, having resigned myself to never finding one, I have looked so often.

Laying in bed this morning I heard the usual YBK call & thought little of it. MrsTea calls from the outside Kitchen area "Yellow -billed Kingfisher, Yellow billed Kingfisher".

"Can you see it?" I yelled back, thinking she had just become enthused by another call at close proximity, the comfort of the bed seemed a better option.

"YES" came her response.

"Don't take your eyes off it" I screamed back as I instantly flung myself out of bed, grabbed the pelican case & rapidly assembled the 600mm lens onto the camera. Heart beating rapidly & self talk telling me it'd be gone by the time I got there. Today however was the day I got lucky.

MrsTea sat at the breakfast table, binoculars glued to her face pointing to a popular perching spot for a variety of birds , a tall dead tree 30 metres away , high above the jungle greenery. Without binoculars all I could make out was the shape of a small dark bird in the morning light but was even then sceptical, never having seen a Kingfisher of any description perched at such a height.

"Are you sure" I asked. "Yes, yes, certain" she replied excitedly. No time to find my binoculars, rapidly fiddling with camera settings I finally looked through the lens & there indeed was a Yellow-billed Kingfisher. A bastard bird if ever there was one, but this one had obviously not read the the Yellow-billed Kingfisher 'How to be a bastard' rule book, as it remained compliantly on it's perch for long enough for me to get several shots.

Not the world's best YBK photos but I got them & they're mine! Thanks goes to my lovely wife, (who knew I'd appear wearing nothing but a camera but still called me anyway) the YBK jinx has been broken. (Next the Black-eared Catbird which teases similarly, but with less frequency than the YBK).

1st pic - as shot
2nd pic cropped & a fake sky added.

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[mudnut]

Today I had the honor of getting my hands dirty on genuine top grade Mexican-Aussie dirt! Cortesy of mr. MB!

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Although the dirt alone would be good enough, it came with this:

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Will put it all apart, clean, degrease and put some sort of protection coating so it lasts forever.

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No flies on your good self too either mate!

Wife said I'd better sleep on the garage tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXcsDMwiEtA
I am slightly jealous of the opportunies you have created for your self to photograph so many magnificent birds, Cuppa.

[Winnie]

I've done a thing!


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